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full of amazing videos. one thing is for sure, these videos are certainly entertaining. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this addition of "caught on camera ". i'm page hopkins. here's what's happening. hurricane sandy continues its slow path along the eastern seaboard expected to take a turn towards the mainland sometime on monday. here is the scene of delaware right now. heavy surf and rain is being felt there. nearly 60 million people are in the path of this storm. a state of emergency has been declared in nine states as official gear up for a multi-day
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of the storm. bill karins is here. >> nothing has changed. hurricane sandy is is heading all the way into the "jersey shore" about 24 hours from now. we're going to see things increase and get more severe overnight. a lot of people will wake up with power but my monday evening millions will lose power. the green shows you where it's raining but the bands of yellow sin creasing. we're going to get up to very heavy rain bands in maryland and chesapeake bay down to virginia beach. notice the one band heading to virginia beach. that is going to be your first kag of the tropical storm force winds. when those move in, that's when the power outages begin. it's now going to take that amazing left turn, the unheard of left turn towards new jersey as we go throughout the evening. it's as far away from the united states as it will ever be and
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overnight and during the day tomorrow it will approach the "jersey shore." hurricane gusts through southern new england and the storm surge tomorrow night that will cause a lot of devastation. >> bill, thank you. we'll keep you updated throughout msnbc. we'll take you back to our regular programming. oh my god. >> where is your clothes at? stay in the seat until i get your clothes. >> they go hand and glover. section for sale, and drug addiction. >> we arrest hundreds and hundreds of girls involved in prostitution. only a handful are not involved with a narcotic. >> all across america, more and more women are turning to drugs like crack and heroin to kill the pain that comes with being bought and sold. msnbc goes undercover with michigan's human trafficking task force for a sobering look
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at the overwhelming power of drug addiction in the business of sex for sale. >> i thought that i could just do it once and stop. >> it's a growing epidemic that can touch anyone, even the all american girl next door. >> this is going to sound crazy, but it's not that hard to go from using drugs from point a to point b of selling yourself. how will you get that much daily when your addiction is out of control and you're using so much of it. how will you get that money every day? ♪ >> it's a saturday night in detroit, and the city is jumping. the local economy is finally on
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the rebound, and people are out on the streets again looking to celebrate and have a good time. to some, that means buying a woman for sex. >> hey, it's sanchez. >> state trooper richard sanchez is part of the michigan human trafficking task force. >> they say my girl is walking the track wearing blue jeans and a black coat, and she goes by honey. >> they combine federal and state local investigators to combat the growing under ground sex trade. >> a lot of these girls have ran away from home, or do not have the support at home or the love they feel, the attention they need at home. so when they leave home, these predators and pimps start to locate them, manipulate them, groom them, and they feel loved. whether it's mental, physical, emotional abuse, it's still a type of affection.
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>> tonight, the team will be traveling from hotel to hotel. >> we have tons of motels. >> understood cover officers set up dates with women. close cover officers monitor the rendezvous. and they move in when a deal for sex has been made. the first goal is to identify and rescue juveniles from traffickers. >> i'm not from here. >> how old are you? >> 18. >> in this case, the young woman is 18 but she's not from detroit, and investigators suspect she's being trafficked. >> did you purchase the room or someone else purchase for you? >> are they here? >> no. >> they think her pimp may be nearby watching and waiting.
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>> these girls are brought into a hotel, separated from their family and friends or any support group they have, and they stay in a hotel waiting for the next call. >> before you go anywhere, is there anything i need to be aware of of anything in the room. any guns? >> no guns, no weed, there is some alcohol. >> she tells police she was recently kicked out of her mother's house and is relatively new to the game. without meaningful intervention, sanchez says girls like this are high risk for getting an addiction. >> we arrest hundreds and hundreds of girls involving prostitution, and only a handful are the ones not involved with any type of narcotic. >> just an hour after nicki's arrest, blocks away, police find
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the union of drugs and prostitution on full display. >> 115, right? >> where are your clothes at? 33-year-old holly is no stranger to the game. >> what's going on? >> a resident of ohio, she's been in michigan for a month staying at various motels and posting online ads for sex. a quick serve of her room turns up condoms, $259 in cash, and dozens of used syringes. >> what do you use the needle for? are you diabetic or using it for other purposes? >> how many packs do you shoot a day? >> barely anything. >> you don't have any with you? >> no, no drugs, just needles. >> you have to have something here.
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a thorough search yielded no drugs tonight, but they think holly's supplier may also be her pimp. >> he is probably out here somewhere. >> you have pimps that will use drugs to control the girls quite a bit. they will supply her, get her hooked on heroin, cocaine, or crack. and at that point, that girl is dependent on that drug. it's like a vicious cycle where the girl is hooked, she needs the drugs, and the pimp say dos this and i will give you drugs. >> here is some of her girlfriends. >> hung her belongings are dozens of photographs that show her in younger days along with companions including an unknown male who may be her pic she is on a bed covered in money. they are the fading troubles of a young woman that uses heroin to cope. >> that girl is about to have
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sex with a stranger for money. doesn't know if that guy will rob her. guys are violent sometimes. so it's a coping mechanism to get them to separate from their body to zone out and get through this. >> coming up, a mother of four struggles to feed her habit and her children. >> i don't approve of what you're doing here, but if you're doing it you have to be safe. >> my baby's birthday is tomorrow. ♪ [ male announcer ] start with nothing, build a ground-breaking car. good. now build a time machine. go here, find someone who can build a futuristic dash board display. bring future guy back. watch him build a tft display like nothing you've ever seen. get him to explain exactly what that is. the thin film transistor display... [ male announcer ] mmm, maybe not. just show it. customize the dash, give it park assist. the fuel efficiency flower thing. send future guy home, his work here is done.
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operations. >> where are your clothes at? >> tonight's arrest begin to provide us with a rare and unsettling look at the chronic drug addiction that often goes hand and hand with life in the underground sex trade. >> that's the most i have seen in forever. >> the unfortunate reality of it is that we arrest hundreds and hundreds of girls involved in prostitution. only a handful are not involved with a type of narcotic. as time goes on, these girls need that numbness or fix to continue to go on from the work that they are doing. >> in countless hotels and motels up and down the boulevards of motor city, the same scenario plays out tonight and every night. a young woman sits in dark drinking or shooting dope trying to forget the last john and waiting for the next one. >> he is rolling in right now.
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i see his brake lights. >> sometimes that next date is actually an undercover cop. >> 219. >> the woman in room 219 is no stronger to police. >> i don't approve of what you're doing here, but if you're going to do it be safe. >> my baby's birthday is tomorrow. it really is. whatever. >> she is 32-year-old crystal manuel, a mother of four with a long history of prostitution and drug charges. >> she indicated to us that she started when she was under age. she did not come from a strong family background. she started hanging out with the wrong crowd and she got hooked up with a gentleman she thought was her boyfriend and now he is her pimp. >> i'm from livonia. >> her room yields crack cocaine
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and a makeshift pipe. >> she is just trying to put food on the table from her children because she's not getting any support from anybody. in order for her to do that and cope with what she has to do on a daily basis, she resorts to narcotics. >> have you been drinking tonight? i just want to make sure you're okay. >> my baby's birthday is tomorrow. >> if you want to see your baby we can make it happen. detective sanchez might be willing to cut her a break in exchange for information about her pimp, a man named gregory smith, also known as "g." >> are you still working with g? >> no. >> i have a baby by him. >> i know you have a baby by him. >> she will deny every time we have an encounter with her. she will deny she has a pimp, but he is mentally, physically, and emotionally abused her in so many ways.
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she has a child by him and there is that connection there. >> he texted me and said that he should have left me in jail. >> who said that? >> g. >> they were caught up in the 2007 murder of a juvenile named kathleen jasmine haul. they delivered her to the john's apartment where she was tortured and killed. the john got life in prison. jasmine's trafficker was never punished. >> you ready to talk about it? >> i know all about it. >> i know about it. >> why haven't you talked to us about it then? >> it's not my problem. >> they're working to build a federal trafficking case against g and want crystal to cooperate. >> i know who you are, you're not a bad person at all. i think you got hooked up with g when you were too young.
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>> no. >> come on, he is not good news, you know that. >> but crystal is not about to give up g tonight. in the jargon of the sex trade, she remains true to the game. >> the girls deny that they have any kind of a pimp. they don't want him to get in trouble and have the repercussions of what he can do to them. so we still see their continuously scared to testify against these pimps. >> he's not good for you. >> no, i know -- >> he's not, you deserve better than this, you know you do, i know you do. these guys take advantage of the girls, play their game with them, and then what happens to the guys? nothing. the girls have to go to jail all the time. they don't deserve it, they have babies to take care of because daddy is not taking care of the
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babies. >> because they don't never. >> they take advantage of you guys and you're like okay, whatever you say, g. you know who i'm talking about. >> don't matter who you're talking about. yep. because when they leave i'm like hey, yeah. here i go. baby, changing the diapers and -- >> there you go, exactly. >> you're the one doing all the work. >> here we go, yep. >> i know you are. >> yep. >> where is he, out smoking some weed, banging another chick? exactly, you know that. >> yep. >> and you're the one that has to go to jail. >> yep. >> and you always protect him for some ungodly reason. because he is the nicest guy in the world. >> no, i haven't talked to him in years. >> doesn't pay for the babies or take care of them, and you're working trying to make ends meet to feed the baby. i know you're not a bad girl. >> although crystal has not been
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legally punished for her role in jasmine's death, detective sanchez says women like crystal can not escape the day to day sentence that comes with life in the underground sex trade. >> they just don't know where to go, who to turn to, who to trust. they have been beaten down so long to make them feel like they're not existent. so we're looking for some way, some how, for somebody to help them. you can't always do that unless they want help themselves. that's where we get stuck. not a lot of them want to go that extra mile or get away from their comfort zone because they lived that life so long they don't know where to go. you run into that quite a bit. >> did you find the heroin? >> up next, addiction can touch anyone. even the all-american girl next door. >> i thought i could do it once and stop. i didn't know that i would do it the one time and that would be
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tonight, investigators with michigan's human trafficking task force have shown us how life in the sex trade can easily lead young girls and women into a downward spiral of alcohol abuse and drug addiction. >> have you been drinking? that's okay, i just want to make sure you're okay. >> you're working with gracey? >> who is that? >> i don't know her. >> they suspect grace may also be selling sex out of the room. >> okay, there is a white female here roaming around with dark brown hair. she is probably 5'2".
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>> yeah, i have a female, she's inside on the phone, this has got to be her. can you bring i.d. over here? >> grace, what are you doing here? >> i let her use my room. >> why? >> who are you working with now? >> nobody. >> was that cocaine in your purse? >> in my purse. >> where are we going? >> grace is no stranger to detectives. you know me, i'm not to drug addict. you want to drug test me? >> why are you still working? >> i'm not sanchez. >> are you working the track anywhere? >> just the hotels. >> this can be done. >> i'm sick today. i'm not working.
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>> although grace admits to being a little drunk, she did not break any laws and police cut her loose. >> you're lucky i like you, grace. >> if i catch you next time you're going, you understand? >> yes, sir. >> cases like crystal where women slide from prostitution into drug addiction are all too common. the task force moves on to their next target. >> a female pulls casual encounters on craigslist. >> an undercover has been talking with a woman that posted on craigslist casual encounters. rather than online ad for sex. >> we're going to dry to do an online date and once she makes the deal outside, we'll go in and arrest her. >> outside a quiet suburban
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motel, close cover officers eyeball the rendezvous while others move in slowly waiting for the good deal signal to make the best. >> she agreed, she's out of his ride. good deal, good deal. >> the woman selling herself is a 20-something college student we'll call dana. upon arrest, she tries to thwart investigators from looking in her car. >> where are the keys? >> you hid something. >> no. >> she's saying they're right up here, i didn't see her throw them. >> through the conversation, she concealed her keys and phones which makes us believe that there's something in the vehicle that she didn't want us to see.
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>> what are your concerns? talk to me. >> i'm doing this because i have a drug problem. >> so you have drugs in the car, no big deal. >> okay. >> she said she has a bunch of heroin in here. >> this is probably it right here. >> inside her car, police find what they say is $300 worth of heroin and three syringes. >> that's why i'm doing this because i'm addicted to it, and you know -- you don't appear to be the kind of girl out in this kind of stuff. >> i'm addicted to it and, you know -- >> how long have you been out here? >> what do you mean? >> involved in prostitution? >> almost a year, since last january. >> and that's the way you're feeding the addiction? >> she has a problem with heroin and feeds that addiction through prostitution. >> back at the state police post, dana confesses she's been fighting heroin addiction for
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over two years. >> so what got you started in prostitution? >> just paying for it. you know, my habit. it grew out of control. >> with a $300 a day habit, it's a battle she's losing. >> heroin, especially -- especially heroin, it -- i mean, it changes your brain, you know, how you think. when you don't have it, you feel like you're dying almost. your body tricks itself. it's like you have to have it or else you're not going to live anymore. like you're dying. >> unusually articulate, educated and self-aware, officers are surprised to learn dana's downward spiral from honor student to addict to prostitute began with a sports injury. >> hi a really bad rotator cuff and i was at the point where i could, you know, keep playing but i was basically putting a bandage over it and taking painkillers and vicodin was
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subscribed to me because it got so bad that i had to take it into play. >> dana graduated to heroin when her health insurance ran out and sh could no longer afford prescription drugs. in the cold quiet of her jail cell struggling without heroin and facing charges, dana realizes she has hit rock bottom. >> i had scholarship offers from -- i can't even count how many un ubs. i mean, i could have basically played sports anywhere that i wanted to. we've worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy -- and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. we've shared what we've learned with governments and across the industry so we can all produce energy more safely. i want you to know, there's another commitment bp takes
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mass transit in the city. we'll keep you updated throughout the night. now back to msnbc undercover. there is nothing more shocking than understanding that this young woman, who we will call dana, was a highly recruited college athlete just a few short years ago. at dana's request, we refrain from mentioning specifics. >> i had scholarship offers from i can't even count how many universities. i could have basically played sports any where that i wanted to. >> we met dana at what she now admits was the lowest point of her life. strung out on heroin and selling her body for cash. dana was arrested in a federal sting aimed at rescuing trafficked girls. >> she did not work for a pimp,
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she had a little heroin, she was scared at first. >> between tears and lock up, the college student admitted to being addicted to heroin after a devastating sports injury. she told our cameras, this is not the life she had planned. >> i was a happy go lucky kid, had a lot of friends, played a lot of sports and was really active. >> raised in rural michigan, dana personified the all-american girl. she was not just good, she was exceptional. >> i was always a bright child, very athletic. anything i picked up i excelled at very quickly. >> looking back now, the punishing physical grind and pressure to succeed led her to abuse alcohol. >> you train rigorously. you're playing sports seven days, six days a week and that's out -- hour's long practices and
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tournaments and just different training sessions, weig weight lifting, running, everything. it just kind of consumes your life. >> big 10 school and duke came calling offering dana full athletic scholarships but she started to rebell and chose to stay close to home. >> by the time i got close to college, i just wanted to hang out with my friends and the fun was gone and it was so serious because at that point it's all about paying for your school. >> after a shoulder injury and with her skol skal lscholarship on the line, she started to self-medicate. >> i started taking ibuprofen and that turned into vik vcodind
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stuff like that. >> she entered rehab only to meet an addict who introduced her to heroin. >> i tried heroin one time and that was it, it was a wrap. any pain, any hurt in my life, anything negative, when i did it, it was gone. >> these are kids that grow up in great households, stable households. >> dana's story isn't shocking to scott macy. >> heroin addiction or opiate addiction is a physical as well as mental -- it's what we consider a brain disease. >> a former addict, scott knows firsthand the devastating impact of what is known as chasing the dragon. like dana, he lived a double life going back and forth from his white collar job to detroit's east side to feed his addiction. >> addiction just takes over any type of thought process, any
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type of -- you know, just takes over their life and it's just an obsession of the mind. >> dana says her $20 a day fix quickly escalated to a $300 a day habit. >> a drug dealer who had been very fond of me kind of made me an offer that i couldn't refuse where he said, i'll give you x amount of drugs if you let me sleep with you. >> the memories of selling herself remain a source of trauma for dana. >> the first time was obviously really hard on me. i was so upset. i was crying afterwards. i felt so weird, you know, and i remember sitting in the shower for a half hour after crying. you know, what am i doing? am i going crazy? >> well, those who are open about their sex work experience, i would say it's about 95% also admit some sort of drug
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addiction. >> the trafficking survivors that he counsels says that pimps and drug dealers use the drugs to cause addiction. >> your body goes through withdrawals so even if the pimp is nowhere near they had, the physical need for the drug over we whelms any need to leave because they have a physical addiction and they can't go to cvs and say, please can i have some heroin. >> any negative feelings i had towards it, there was no other way i could have gotten that amount of drugs for, you know, doing anything else. >> and you are aware of all of the parties that are going on? >> yes. they have them all over.
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>> the night that she was arrested, dane ta told investigators about an underground network where men buy women without fear of police detection. >> i ended up meeting a man from craigslist who knew about this underground almost like society, if you will, of men that created an online website where the girls would go there and post and people could call you and set up a date with you. >> there is a secret society type of websites where the average person has to apply to ever gain access into the society. and you basically fill out a form on the internet and they actually do a background check on you through information that you provide to them and it's very difficult to get into these websites. >> and what kind of men frequent the society? >> it messed with trust issues. a lot of married men.
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you look at them and you see that just like the deception there and sometimes hearing people that you're with calling their wives as they are in the room with you, i'm at the grocery store, i'll be home in about an hour and you're going to sleep with me and got off the phone with your wife? i dealt with that a lot. that was very, very, very hard. >> despite the miss teek, there is nothing something see about women bought online. >> it's hardly glamorous, it's violent and quick and nameless and it's hurtful. >> fighting to stay clean remains a daily struggle for dana. with the support of her family, she's made the difficult decision to go public in order to help other struggling teens. >> my real hope is that from my experiences, you know, if i could help one person that's maybe teetering on the edge of addiction and trying a harder drug or maybe someone that is addicted maybe thinking of
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selling themselves to help them maybe step back from that would make me feel like everything i went through wasn't for nothing. coming up, a wakeup call for a young woman being recruited from a pimp. >> i'm not going to let you go unless you come get me. you have to come get me. what ? they can help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this.
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the stable. >> how much was it for a two-fer. >> i thought there was going to be one young lady here and there were two. >> does that happen a lot? >> not really. >> at 19, this young woman named april is actually the experienced one. she's familiar to the task force from a prior arrest but the team also nabbed her pimp. >> who is this guy over here? >> he met with the undercover officer once the girl had the money, she actually slipped the money up under her door to jason. he picked up the money and he was detained with the undercover
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money. >> tonight police say there was a new recruit, a 23-year-old called lori. >> she tried to convince me that her friend was there for a good time as well and the girl looked nervous and out of place. it was evident to me that this was probably her first rodeo. she was very out of place. >> back at the state police post, investigators separate the women for further questioning. >> how are you doing? do you want to talk to me? >> no. >> not at all? >> no. >> tonight april takes the fifth and says that she was unwittingly called into the situation by her pimp and friend. >> she said that she was going
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to answer the calls but then encouraged to watch and if she felt like she could, that she was supposed to get involved. and she was upset about it, felt awful about it. >> police say that young women like lori usually don't fall into prostitution overnight. >> towards the end they are going to be selling their body and make money from that. they will take them out to dinner, they will say they have feelings for you. they will buy them gifts and start off slow. hey, i've got these other girls doing that. i just need you to answer the phones or look out for her. you don't have to have something. at some point that's going to change. >> tonight jason was arrested outside the hotel room that he rented for april and lori and
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does his best to convince our cameras that tonight's run-in with the law is just one big misunderstanding. >> what happened to you tonight? >> apparently somebody that was in a room that i rented out did something wrong and the fact that it was my room. >> do you think you were wrongly brought down here in. >> i didn't do anything wrong. i wasn't -- if something went wrong in the room or whatever, i wasn't there. it's just the fact that it was my room. >> jason's on camera performance is just one example of the pimp's capacity for smooth, talk, and lies as he seeks to put distance between himself and his girls. >> that's typical. most pimps will do that, where they distance themselves from the room and the girls and act like they don't know them. we just need to find a connection between his cell
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phone and her cell phone. >> romeo pimps like jason often have a natural talent for deceiving vulnerable, young women. >> it's like a sports player, some guys are good at hitting a baseball and these guys are good at lying to females or just lying in general. >> i'm not a human trafficker, that's for sure. >> really? >> yeah. i'm not. >> do you know what human trafficking is? >> i believe that human trafficking is, you know, forcing people underage to do sexual stuff for money. that should be stopped. that's terrible. but i don't understand, you know, where people that don't have anything to do with that is just kind of washed up in the whole mix. i don't understand. >> i think the reason is that
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your girlfriend made an appointment with an undercover officer to have sex with him for money. >> you know what, i don't believe that. until i talk to you and i wasn't there. so that's bizarre to me, somebody that would be my girlfriend to do something like that. i don't know. as far as who would -- who is my girlfriend. >> jason's ongoing effort to play dumb for our cameras is finally thrown aside when the police release april. >> so oh is this your girlfriend? >> yeah. what's wrong? >> and just like we saw, he told you all those things and then when it's time to leave at the end of the night with their tickets that they waublged out together. >> you've got to come get me. they are not going to let me go until you come get me. >> as far as lori is concerned,
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police hope tonight's trip to jail will be enough to make her think twice before hanging out with friends like april and jason ever again. >> sit in the lobby. >> my take on it is that she's got an akwcquaintance, the bad friend that makes the wrong decisions. you'd like to think that this changed her. >> i'd like to think this is a good night for her because she's going to get a wake-up call and realize what a dangerous road this is and kind of see the err of her ways. up next, neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night should stay these troubled souls from working to feed their desperate need for drugs. >> how woupowerful is that addiction? >> very. nomics, nomics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me
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for those who wonder. >> reporter: how to make money for their big pimps, look no further than the local prostitution track. >> there's a lot of prostitution going on. >> every city has them. >> it only takes investigators to say what's going on. >> is it slow today? >> we are slow. >> everything okay out on the street still? >> ain't nothing out here. it is what it is. >> unphased by law enforcement or our cameras, the women speaks openly about her work.
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>> you got young girls out here? we talking about babies. like under 18. >> detectives suspect this woman is probably out here in the rain today to feed a serious drug addiction. >> i will probably lean towards crack or heroin for her, just her loss of teeth. >> and it serves as doling out all vices to feed a junkies habit. >> vacant homes and that way the police come by and don't have a connection with that house. sometimes they will live somewhere on the block but they will store and makeshift and
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some crack houses even, there are women who are sold as extra to the drugs. you buy the drug, you get a woman and they are just in there and the idea is that they keep the women high so they are just there as extra large fries with the milk shake, if you will. >> spot another women is spotted. >> a little bit of fun? how much? >> at first the woman is understandably wary of these clean cut men in suits with michigan state police and it
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speaks volumes about the overwhelming power of drug addiction. >> i don't know. visibly nervous and there's a situation where you need money and sometimes they don't think. >> you good with that? can we do both at different times or one at a time? >> i'm doing a documentary on addiction and trafficking of young girls so i just wanted to ask you about why you would be out here in the pouring rain and
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hail working. and how bad is it? >> i'm not on heroin or anything but i left my family. >> how powerful is that addiction? >> very. >> and then did you have children? >> yeah, four. >> and where are they now? >> they are grown. they lived out south. i never used drugs when i was pregnant. >> at 41, this mother of four has been out on the streets for about a year and admits her addiction to crack leaves her powerless to change. >> i just can't do it. i don't want to go to jail or rehab. i just can't seem to get it and
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my friends have been killed out here. >> really? from what? >> dates. people. i have girlfriend that was shot. i was with her that night. she was shot in the head a few weeks ago. >> who was she shot by? a john? >> i don't know the person. i know what he looks like but i don't know him. >> was it a date? or was it a pimp? >> no, there's no such things as pimps out here. >> you're all on your own? >> yes. nobody helps you out here. >> so somebody killed your girlfriend? were you with her? >> that night i was. and i didn't want to go where she went. so i didn't go when she was killed when she got there. >> although the unsolved murder of her friend still terrifies
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her, the need for crack cocaine keeps her out on the streets. >> you know what, if people weren't so harsh and they helped to get off instead of trying to force you, maybe you could make it. i just don't -- my advice is, don't ever try anything, not even a little. even if you're uncomfortable, just get through it. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> take care. >> as the woman disappears into the downpour, we are reminded of dana who also walked these desperate streets hungry for her next fix. but today dana says that staying sober is the only way to stay off the street. >> it's a fight but, i mean, it's a fight worth fighting for. you know, to stay clean and i'm aware of that. i just really hope that i can continue forward and just don't ever go
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